Father vs Spawn - What's the difference?

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Father is a related term of spawn.

As a proper noun father

is (christianity) god, the father of creation.

As a verb spawn is

to produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

As a noun spawn is

the numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

father

English

Noun

(en noun)

A (generally human) male who begets a child.

* Bible, Proverbs x. 1

A wise son maketh a glad father .

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A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

* Bible, 1 Kings ii. 10

David slept with his fathers .

* Bible, Rom. iv. 16

Abraham, who is the father of us all

* Shakespeare

Bless you, good father friar!

A person who plays the role of a father in some way.

* Bible, Job xxix. 16

I was a father to the poor.

* Bible, Genesis xiv. 8

He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house.

The founder of a discipline or science.

A senator of Ancient Rome.

Synonyms

* (parent) See also

Antonyms

* (with regards to gender) mother * (with regards to ancestry) son, daughter, child

Hypernyms

* (a male parent) parent

Derived terms

* Father Christmas * Father of Lies * Father Time * Father's Day * fatherhood * father-in-law * fatherland * fatherless * fatherliness * fatherly * forefather * godfather * God the Father * grandfather * great-grandfather * Heavenly Father * how's your father * * stepfather

Verb

(en verb)

To be a father to; to sire.

* 1592 , v 4

Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live; Especially since Charles must father it.

(figuratively) To give rise to.

* 1610 — ii 2

Cowards father cowards and base things sire base.

To act as a father; to support and nurture.

* 1610 — iv 2

Ay, good youth! And rather father thee than master thee.

To provide with a father.

* Shakespeare

Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded?

To adopt as one's own.

* Jonathan Swift

Men of wit / Often fathered what he writ.

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spawn

English

(wikipedia spawn)

Verb

(en verb)

To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.

To bring forth in general.

To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn

To plant with fungal spawn

To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.

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To reproduce, especially in large numbers.

(ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.

Derived terms

* despawn * respawn * spawnable * spawn point * spawner * spawny

Noun

(spawn)

The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.

(by extension, sometimes, derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.

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(horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

(video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.

Derived terms

* hellspawn